My wife and I had an amazing carriage ride experience today with Clyde (the horse) and Patrick as…read moreour guide! Patrick was not only incredibly knowledgeable about the history of Natchez but also had a great sense of humor that made the tour so enjoyable. This ride was the perfect way to see so much more of the city than we could have on foot--unless you're up for a cross-country trek, this is absolutely the way to go. Highly recommend!

We LOVED this tour. Our guide was full of personal stories and facts about the town that only…read morelocals would know. It was probably our favorite tour of our visit in Natchez. We would love to take this tour again on a future visit.

This is a must do when visiting Natchez. Best if you can do it your first day here, but must do…read moreeven if it's your last day. All the sights, stories, gossip! Sally has great restaurant recommendations also

We enjoyed doing this for the price of $25 per person. Lasted about 1 hour ish. Had called and…read moreplanned this few months in advance. We had come to Natchez for our 7th anniversary. It is best to call to schedule, the lady was really sweet and humorous, and really knew her stuff. She grew up in the area so she knows pretty much everyone. Any questions you have she had them. I definitely recommend.

Karla Brown indeed has her office Downtown in a pretty interesting antique mall. But her real place…read moreof business is on the roads of Natchez. It is in her large and comfortable van that she spins her tales of the history of Natchez, tells about ghosts and spirits, and visits the grave of its most beloved cat (the esteemed Tripod). She has a variety of tours to suit your interests. Ghost tours are evening affairs and visit the famous Natchez Cemetery. History tours occur during the day, and visit points of interest. Ms. Brown is very personable and you will immediately feel comfortable with her. She has a wealth of knowledge to share with the visitors, and is indeed happy to do so. The comfortable driving tour is a good way to learn about Natchez and see a variety of locations. They range from a hour and a half to about three hours. The pricing is very reasonable for this type of guided tour, and we all enjoyed our time with Ms. Brown.

She is a terrific and knowledgeable narrator. We took the Greg Iles combo book tour. The provided…read morestory handouts allow you to keep up with the 70+ destinations. The tour covers all the first six books with added Natchez parallel history. She was patient with our peppering of questions to separate truth from fiction. If you are a fan of this Natchez author the trip is worth the $$ and four and half hours of your time.

Such a fun tour. Our guide, Cam, was excellent. We had a great time learning about some of the…read moreghosts haunting Natchez. It was a pleasant walk and well worth the time.

Really enjoyed this walking tour. It was about 90 minutes and about 1.5 mi. The people on the tour…read moreranged from families with children to slightly inebriated middle-aged people. There were about five or six stops on the tour. Scott was incredibly knowledgeable both about Natchez history and paranormal investigation.. I knew nothing about it and learned a lot, but my girlfriend, who is very interested in the subject, also enjoyed it. So something for everybody.. He also recommended a few bars and restaurants we could enjoy for afterwards. The tour starts at 7:00, and Scott's recommendation which I agree with is to eat before. For some bizarre reason, most restaurants in Natchez seem to close at 9:00 p.m., even on a saturday. Tours are $25 and he takes cash app, cash on site, or you can pre-register.. I tipped him well and you should also!

If you only have time for one tour, take Jeremy Houston's tour. Not only did we enjoyed the tour,…read morebut learned a great amount of local history and saw unmarked places we would have passed and never understood. Jeremy is the real deal. A remarkable, hard working and driven young man who has found his place in Natchez. His ancestors would be as proud of him as he is of them. I recommend tipping 100%. :-)

Excellent tour! I found this tour by going to the Visitor's Center. The Miss Lou Heritage Tour was…read morefantastic and just what I was looking for and is very insightful, showing the history of African Americans! I'll definitely take it again when I'm back in Natchez!

Had a great stay in Choctaw Hall this past week. The place is beautiful and the room was clean…read more Lee offered to help us with our luggage. Daved gave us a great tour of the Mansion, pointing out the antiques in his collection and their history. Choctaw is within walking distance of downtown and several other historic homes. Thanks David and Lee.

We chose Choctaw Hall for our stay in Natchez partly because of its location to the various…read morehistoric trails and to the river and partly because of the idea of staying in a "townhouse" from 1836. Our room was very comfortably appointed with a roomy en suite. The common room just outside our door provided 24-hour coffee and other drinks plus snacks. We had our morning coffee and evening drinks outside while we enjoyed the quiet neighborhood and magnificent oak trees. Lee gave us the tour of the house as David's voice is giving out. While the house is beautiful, the contents are what make it unique and fascinating. David and Lee are excellent hosts - helpful but not intrusive. The coupons for breakfast at two different nearby restaurants added to the enjoyment - both restaurants were an easy walk and both were delicious. Additionally, several restaurants (try the po-boy at Wardos) nearby were delicious. Choctaw Hall was the perfect location for walking old Natchez and "below the hill" while enjoying the ambience of an historic Natchez townhouse. We had a memorable stay.

Auburn Plantation…read more We toured this house during the "Hope Restoration Project". The tour was amazing. So much history and the house is absolutely stunning! Here's a little history lesson. In 1811, Lyman Harding, the first Attorney General of Mississippi, hired Levi Weeks to build the mansion. Levi designed the house to be, in his words, the "most magnificent building in the state." After Harding died in 1820, the building was bought by Dr. Stephen Duncan. Here's a little history on Dr. Duncan,... He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the U.S. with over 2,200 slaves. He owned 15 cotton and sugar plantations, served as President of the Bank of Mississippi, and held major investments in railroads and lumber. He became an influential Mississippi backer of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the removal of freed American blacks to Liberia, a colonial settlement in West Africa. Under his leadership during the 1830s, the Mississippi Colonization Society removed 571 African-Americans to Liberia. He was a steadfast Unionist during the American Civil War. He tried unsuccessfully to lobby the Lincoln Administration to help him protect his slaveholdings after the Union army occupied large swaths of Mississippi. But appeals from Duncan and his family members largely went unheeded. In late 1863, he left the Confederacy by Union gunboat and relocated to New York City where he lived until his death in 1867. Auburn and 222 acres was sold by the family to the city of Natchez in 1911 and is now a historic house museum in a public park.

We were on a road trip and we're excited to stay in an antebellum home. The price was fully twice…read morewhat we had paid it any other hotel along the way. That was fine because we expect to Pay more at a bed-and-breakfast mansion. But, the room was quite dirty. The tops of the vintage baseboards were covered with dirt and dust. The corners of the bathroom were very dirty. I somehow expected a room at an antebellum mansion to be pristine. The breakfast in the morning was just so so. It was scrambled eggs, bacon and grits. Generally when we stay in fancy bed and breakfasts, the breakfast is something special. Some interesting new thing or something we've never tried before. This was just Normal --a little disappointing.

The story behind this house is absolutely amazing and the tour guides do suchhh a good job telling…read moreit. 10 out of 10 recommended touring this historical home. Ok now for a history lesson: Longwood (also known as Nutt's Folly) -the largest octagonal house in the United States. This 6 story, 30,000 square foot mansion was designed by Samuel Sloan, a well-known architect from Philadelphia for cotton baron Haller Nutt and his wife, Julia. Construction began in 1860, but came to an abrupt halt when the "War Between the States" broke out in 1861 due to the workers being from the Union state, Pennsylvania. The exterior was mostly complete but the home's interior was left unfinished. Between February and July 1862, using his own slaves, Nutt finished the 8 room basement level. The interior walls were plastered and the present floor was installed. The Nutt family then moved into this completed section of the mansion. In the fall of 1863 the Union armies devastated Haller Nutt's Louisiana plantations, causing him a loss of $1,020,540.07. He died of pneumonia in 1864. Julia and his 8 children continued to live on the finished 1st floor. Because Nutt was a recognized supporter of the Union, his heirs (between 1866-1911) were eventually able to collect a total of $188,269.66 as partial compensation from the US Government for Nutt's losses. Once completed, the home would have had 32 rooms, 26 fireplaces, 115 doors and 96 columns. The rotunda was designed to have a system of mirrors inside the cupola to reflect sunlight down. Also, the shape of the cupola was designed to pull hot air upward, creating an updraft drawing fresh air through the lower floors. The property was deeded to the Pilgrimage Garden Club in 1970 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

I am not sure exactly what I was expecting when I wanted to visit this house, but this way exceeded…read moremy expectations. Driving up, you leave the main road, pay at the gate house, then drive along a winding gravel road and park at the back of the house. You go into the gift shop and show your receipt that you got from the gate house. They walk you into the first floor, or what the original owners intended to be the basement. Except for the center, all rooms around intended to be various rooms for entertainment and so forth but ended up being the living area for the family. It was wonderfully decorated. Then you go upstairs, and you can see that despite the outside of the house looking as if it was all intact, it was incomplete. The war between the states was underway when it came time to work on the main portion of the house, so you can see the bones of the structure and how things should have been. It was amazing and breathtaking. Outside, if you pay attention, you can see the fingerprints of the enslaved on the bricks as all bricks were made and fired on site. The details are amazing. I would recommend for anyone in the area.

This is one of those places the experience is truly dependent upon the person. History does not…read morealways present itself with a rush of excitement or a spectacle to behold. Driving up to the Emerald Mound, one might think to themselves, "Look, a hill covered with grass. How quaint," and then wonder why they made the trip. This is where imagination is key to the experience. Imagine this place a thousand years ago. Imagine the indigenous people and their culture and how vastly different it is from today. We are standing in the exact same place they were. Take the time to read about it and then decide if standing on hallowed grounds aren't worth more than just a grassy hill.

I think most people in the United States know about ruins in the southwest. You may have seen…read moreancient pottery and figurines in museums. You've probably heard about the Navajo, Hopi, and other cultures of that region. The Natchez culture is not unfamiliar, either, but do you know about the mounds scattered in the southeast and the larger ancient Mississippian culture? It was new to me not that many years ago as I first saw pottery of this culture in a museum. I have wanted to see more but there doesn't seem to be a lot of pottery remaining from this period. What about the mounds? Well, what are essentially man-made hills aren't as visually compelling as a desert cliff dwelling, right? It explains why so few tourists visit. Emerald Mound is the second-largest mound in the United States and was an important ceremonial center dating from 1250 to 1600. There is some good information posted but this site is crying out for an interpretive center that could really help tell the story of this ancient culture and bring it to life.

The ladies that run this place are fantastic. I own a private tour company and I bring my Guest to…read moreLongwood and also to Stanton Hall. They are absolutely always happy and are very proud of what they do. Every single person that I've encountered has been fantastic including the guard at the gate of Longwood. Worth a visit to Natchez even if it's just to see these highly recommended places.

My husband came in for the weekend to tour some of the old antebellum homes. We had an opportunity…read moreto take a guided evening tour of Longwood. Our tour guide, Irish, was very knowledgeable of all things about this beautiful octagonal home....even the visitors we couldn't see. Or did we? 10 out of 10! Give it a try! You may get more than meets the eye.